Perpetuating the Politics of Praise: Jeli singers, radios, and political mediation in Mali by Dorothea E. Schulz

Perpetuating the Politics of Praise: Jeli singers, radios, and political mediation in Mali

Studien Zur Kulturkunde #118

Dorothea E. Schulz

296 pages first pub 2001 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction history sociology
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The book describes continuities and changes in the political significance of jeliw (sing. jeli), praise singers, in Mali who performed crucial tasks of reputation management on behalf of wealthy and powerful families in the nineteenth century. Bas...

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